Friday, October 26, 2007

Free speech censorship

Free Speech
It's typically bad essay form to start a section with a dictionary definition, but since I want to contrast my definition with the conventional dictionary definition, it's hard to start with anything else. Free speech is defined by dictionary.com as


free speech
The right to express any opinion in public without censorship or restraint by the government.
This definition misses some critical aspects of our common usage of the term. For instance, free speech is of no value if nobody is allowed to listen to the speech; people in solitary confinement have perfectly free speech, but that does not mean that we would have considered it an acceptable solution to lock up Martin Luther King Jr. in solitary confinement and let him preach what he may; along with the obvious unjust imprisionment we would consider this to be an obvious example of trampling on free speech. We should also consider the right to free speech as the right to listen to anybody we choose (subject to possible exceptions later), thus

free speech
The right to express any opinion in public without censorship or restraint by the government, and the corresponding right to experience anybody's expressions in public without censorship or restraint by government.
I use ``experience'' here as a general verb: One listens to a speech, watches a movie, reads a book or webpage, etc.
Since I don't want to define free speech in terms of censorship, lets remove that and put in its place what people are really afraid of.


free speech
The right to express any opinion in public, and the corresponding right to experience anybody's expressions in public, without being pressured, denied access, arrested, or otherwise punished by the government.

THE TWO ARTICLES I HAVE JUST POSTED ARE DIRECTLY RELATED WITH FARENHET 451 AND BRAVE NEW WORLD, WE CAN ANALIZE HOW THEY MADE PEOPLE TO CONSUME MORE AND MORE ,AND HOW THEY ARE NOT ALLOWED TO EXPRESS THEIR FEELINGS AND OPINION IN ANY TOPIC, EVERYTHING IS DETERMINED BY THE AUTHORITIES THAT MANIPULATE THE HOLE SOCIETY , IN THESE TWO ASPECTS(CONSUMERISMS AND LUCK OF EXPRESSION) AND IN MANY OTHERS.I CAN CONCLUDE SAYING THAT BOTH BOOKS AND RELATED IN MOST OF THEIS ASPECTS AND IT IS IMPORTAN TO MAKE I COMPLETE COMPARISON BETWEEN THEM TO GET MORE CONCLUTIONS.

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